FORA.tv Speaker - Tali Sharot

Biography

Tali Sharot is a neuroscientist who received her
Ph.D in psychology and neuroscience from New York University and has a
B.A in economics and psychology. She is currently at the Wellcome Trust
Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London. Her scholarly
research focuses on how emotion, motivation and social factors influence
our expectations, decisions and memories.

Her papers on the
neuroscience of optimism, emotional memories and cognitive dissonance
have been published in top scientific journals including Nature,
Science, Nature Neuroscience and Psychological Science. This work has
been the subject of features in Newsweek, Forbes, The Boston Globe,
Time, The Wall Street Journal, New Scientist, The Washington Post, the
BBC and others. Tali is the author of The Optimism Bias and co-editor of
The Neuroscience of Preference and Choice. She has also written essays
for the popular press which have been published in The New York Times
and Time.

She received awards and honours for her scientific
work including grants and fellowships from the Wellcome Trust and
British Academy.